This bill is a big deal and will allow the IRS to have even more power over financial transactions. In fact, it might be a good time to take money out of your savings account, buy a safe and put gold in it.
Brown is a phony rino and will not be re-elected even in liberal MA. He will just not have the base of support from the Tea Party activists.

Snowe and Collins will be re-elected, sad to say. I live in Maine and no other Republican, moderate or conservative, has the name recognition of these two stimulus sisters.

Their democrat opponents are always ultra-liberals.

Southern Maine is basically North Massachusetts.
Northern Maine has alot of conservative gun-owners, and retired veterans, but alot of poverty and a high percentage of elderly folk.

Poor people and elderly may not necessary be liberal, but they tend to favor big government programs. Maine is a tough-nut to crack for conservatives to win statewide or federal office.

The state is basically very pro-military....lots of flag wavers and patriots. For instance, a 21 year old soldier was killed in Afghanistan recently. His funeral was held here in Maine last Sunday. The local media reported the story in length....respectfully....the democrat governor called the family, ordered flags statewide lowered on the day of the funeral, and I believe he attended the funeral. Snowe and Collins usually attend these funerals, too.
Maine has one of the largest numbers of National Guard in Iraq and Afghanistan, per capita, of any state.

We’re not all moonbats here in Maine, in spite of the frustrations caused by Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe.

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posted on 05/20/2010 1:37:24 PM PDT
by july4thfreedomfoundation
(I'm voting for Sarah Palin because she pisses off the right people.)

Most people are too dumbed down, they won’t take their money out of the bank. Why? I have no idea. I guess it’s easier to just b*tch on FR and other forums than to actually do something about it. I cleaned mine out long ago and they will never get their hands on it. It’s not even in this country.

Professor David Henderson, research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, writes about regulation in “Are We Ailing From Too Much Deregulation?” in Cato Policy Report (November/December 2008). The Federal Register, which lists new regulations, annually averaged 72,844 pages between 1977 and 1980. During the Reagan years, the average fell to 54,335. During the Bush I years, they rose to 59,527, to 71,590 during the Clinton years and rose to a record of 75,526 during the Bush II years. Employees in government regulatory agencies grew from 146,139 in 1980 to 238,351 in 2007, a 63 percent increase. In the banking and finance industries, regulatory spending between 1980 and 2007 almost tripled, rising from $725 million to $2.07 billion. So here’s my question: What are we to make of congressmen, talking heads and news media people who tell us the financial meltdown is a result of deregulation and free markets? Are they ignorant, stupid or venal?

“what is the basis of the Republican Partys objections to the bill as it is constituted?”

Simply put, it’s an executive branch power grab. It will give the government the authority to oversee banks and the credit industry. All records (including our individual records) will be open and under the supervision of the government.

It permits the government to do hostile takeovers of any banks it wants, fire management, replace the board of directors, liquidate assets, and select which creditors get paid.

If passed, congress will have no say in what is being done unless they write new legislation. So financial institutions will have to play by Obamas rules or else. It has been described as turning our financial institutions into public utilities.

Punish, punish, punish: that is the Comrade O-Kenya Agenda. America must be punished for being the most successful, free-est nation on the face of the earth. Punish and then control the sheepish masses.

I have to say, if you don’t “trust” Marco Rubio, you’re not going to like more than a handful of U.S. Senators. Marco Rubio is a solid conservative, and will help move the Senate in the right direction. Sure, he was an idiot to comment on the AZ law before having read it, but it doesn’t make him a liberal. It should be noted, though, that not only did Rubio support the law after he read it (and, particularly, after amendments clarifying the things that liberals were demagoguing about were signed into law), but that even in his initial comments he said that he understood the need for action by border states and merely said that he was “troubled” about certain aspects of the law that he had heard from the media. There’s a big difference between what Rubio said (and later retracted when he got more information) and what amnesty pushers believe.

It’s supposed to be about too big to fail but its about everything else but. Among problems with it is big brother-like visibility into personal financial matters. Perhaps worst of all is putting an ACORN-like fifth column inside the FRB. They call it the CFPA but it really is the financial luddite Christmas tree. Amongst its lunacy is they want to “approve” products before financial businesses release them to consumers. There will be more innovation in the ant hill business now. Egad.

Obama and his Congress are like doting mothers and oppressive fathers. Whenever the kid makes a mistake, big daddy will make sure he puts strict rules in place so junior doesn’t mess up again, and tells junior how disappointed he is in him and how bad he’s been. Junior then grows up scared of his own shadow until one day he commits suicide. We’re junior, folks.

If you’re going to defame Marco Rubio, you’d better come up with some evidence and not assume that he’s pro-open borders just because he’s Hispanic. Marco Rubio has a long record in the legislature and has been consistently opposed to open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. So put up or shut up: where’s your evidence?

Yeah, I’ve noticed the pretend POTUS’s authoritarian streak. When he isn’t issuing a deadline, he’s giving an ultimatum. I thought our constitution and government were constructed to be the opposite of authoritarian. Can we call him a pre-constitutional ruler?

BS. Rubio blocked AZ-like laws when he was the leader of the FL House. He is spewing the same crap McCollum is saying AZ’s law is good for AZ but not for FL. This is after Rubio flip-flopped on AZ’s law. He was against it before he was for it. He sounds like JohnKerry or pathetic Crist.

It is the same crap Jeb Bush, Crist and Rubio are saying. They are RINOs too and not hispanic.

So, assuming that you are correct and Rubio blocked “AZ-type bills” in the FL state house, if Rubio thought that it was a bad idea politically for FL Republicans to adopt a law mandating cops to check the immigration status of everyone they stop, it means that he’s in favor of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens? While I think that every state—and the federal government—should adopt a law similar to the one recently adopted in AZ, that does not mean that everyone who would rather not do so is a RINO. Remember, too, that Rubio’s family, as well as most of his constituents in his old house district, escaped from a communist regime in which one had to carry one’s “papers” at all times or face getting hauled away by the secret police, so a law like the one adopted in AZ would certainly be controversial even among Republicans in South Florida.

You picked out one, tangential issue—the AZ law—and deemed anyone who would not adopt the law in his home state a RINO. I bet you I can do the same to 99% of Republican politicians nationwide by picking another non-central issue, since X voted to ban discrimination against homosexuals in the workplace, and Y voted against defunding Planned Parenthood, and Z voted for tariffs on steel imports, but that does not mean that 99% of Republican politicians nationwide are RINOs. Marco Rubio is a solid conservative, and will be our ally in the Senate on every issue—including immigration. Falsely claiming that Rubio is in favor of open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens will only result in someone who will vote against us on just about every issue, such as Charlie Crist and (especially) Kendrick Meek, being elected to the Senate in Florida.

One tangential issue?! You mean illegal immigration which is bankrupting America and FL? The problem is the FL GOP is all RINOs. Open-border Bush pals. Disgusting. I though McCollum was better but he is just as bad.

Brown, Snowe and Collins. The usual RINOs sell us out once again. We need to pass NOTHING until the Republicans retake all of the US legislature. Any corrections to any deficiences we have as a nation can wait until then. Anything passed by Pelosi and Read will advance communism in sheep’s clothing.

Brown is good. He is a liberal Republican that is one seat closer to a Senate majority. There is no Masshole alternative better than we have in Brown. He is the best we are going to get out of “Kenedy’s seat”, so don’t complain about him. At least he helps the Republicans retake the Senate and get rid of Read or whoever would become majority leader after Read gets unelected.

We need to retake the House and Senate. Any RINOs who take a Socialists seat helps us get there. Brown is a good thing. We aren’t’ going to get better from the Commonwealth of Taxassueschits.

Well be in such bad shape by this time next year that they will just toss it aside.

I agree with you on the implementation of the so called "health aspects" of the bill. That was never the intent of the socialist RAT bastards, as they only wanted to advance their socialist-marxist-fascist agenda.

However what will be implemented without delay will be the 111 additional federal bureaucracies and thousands of new federal employees, called for by 0bozo Healthcare debacle. Even in the unlikely event that this Healthcare debacle is ever repealed, the chances are nil to none, that the new federal agencies will be removed or defunded. We will still get screwed in the end.

I agree with you on the implementation of the so called “health aspects” of the bill. That was never the intent of the socialist RAT bastards, as they only wanted to advance their socialist-marxist-fascist agenda.

However what will be implemented without delay will be the 111 additional federal bureaucracies and thousands of new federal employees, called for by 0bozo Healthcare debacle. Even in the unlikely event that this Healthcare debacle is ever repealed, the chances are nil to none, that the new federal agencies will be removed or defunded. We will still get screwed in the end.

No, stopping illegal immigration is indeed a central issue (and a darn important one); a state law mandating that cops verify the immigration status of everyone they stop is a tangential issue. Re-read my examples of tangential issues in my prior post and you’ll see what I mean.

You are throwing a hissy fit because someone who agrees with you on the central issue (and it is clear that Marco Rubio opposes open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens) does not agree with you 100% on how to achieve it. You’re like pro-lifers who will pledge to defeat a legislator with a 99% pro-life voting record because they did not vote to defund Planned Parenthood. When someone does that, one should be disappointed, and explain why it’s bad strategy for a pro-lifer to vote against defunding Planned Parenthood; one shouldn’t lie about the legislator, calling him pro-abortion, and thus aid someone who truly is pro-abortion get elected to replace him. And that’s what you’re doing with Marco Rubio by calling him an “open-borders RINO” without a shred of evidence. You know who truly is pro-open borders? Kendrick Meek. You know who would probably support amnesty for illegal aliens? Charlie Crist. They’re the ones who will benefit from your attacks upon Marco Rubio’s honor.

I asked you several posts ago to show me where Marco Rubio has favored open borders or amnesty for illegal aliens, and you’ve got NOTHING. Your repetition of “he doesn’t think the AZ law is right for FL” as “proof” of your claim is a non-sequitur.

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